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2038-01-19T03:14:07Z

02 customers can avail themselves of free dvd rentals. So I did.

Going to the videostore

(yes it's still a videostore, even if it doesn't stock any vhs, and yes the New Bridge in Limerick is twenty years old, and *yea* it still be the New Bridge. Language must live in the fucking vernacular gawdemmit.)

is generally a group effort, and generally a group effort will result in a camel.

(A horse built by a committe is a camel : Old Klingon saying implying the inefficacy of committee. Man try that shit with an arab four days from an oasis with only your piss to drink and you're going to look pretty stupid. That saying isn't very deep.)

So being able to just select dvd rentals from the online videostore is obviously a solo effort, it allows one to rent the movies one wants. This may seem unextraordinary, but you try going to rent a movie with Doc some time. Anyhoo, I have now compiled a wishlist of dvds, which will wing their way to my door. This list is "Brian movies what he wants to see", a veri-fucking-table window on the fucking soul.

I made the list in work last week after Sonya let me in on the o2 "secret", which turns out to be on the radio ad-breaks more often than black people are on mtv. A week later I gaze back on my list, and lo, it doth gaze back:

3: Sky High
4: Solaris (2002)
5: The Punisher (2004)
6: Sideways
7: Extras
8: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
9: Y Tu Mama Tambien
10: Layer Cake
11: Wonder Boys
12: Pi
13: Oceans Twelve
14: Feet of Flames
15: Lord Of War
16: Resident Evil Apocalypse
17: SchoolOfRock
18: Sopranos Series 1 Vol1, The
19: Ricky Gervais Politics
20: Ringers Lord Of The Fans
21: Bill Bailey Bewilderness Live
22: Serenity
23: Bill Hicks Sane Man
24: Signs
25:

Some notes:

1) Like I have shoegazingly told many a teacher in my yoof, I have an explantion, but there can be no excuse - for uimhir a ceathardeag on the list.

2) I don't even like Ricky Gervais. The reason he crops up so often on the list is I want to check his stuff out.

3) "Ringers" is a fucking fan-made documentray about the sad fuckers taht go to Lord of the Rings conventions to meet actors. And by actors, I don't mean cool fuckers like McKellen, I mean like the hobbit who was even shitter than the other hobbit who is the shittest thing on Lost, which is frankly saying a fucking lot. Wtf.

4)The current top-rated movie on list is a Disney hero about superheroes. Why I wasn't willing to wait five years for it to be on the "The big big movie" on rte1 on a saturday evening so I can miss it by going getting drunk early, I have nooo idea. Still, Kurt Ruseel + Bruce Campbell + Lynda Carter (who I just realised I love more than that swede from the Eurovision. More even than Marion from bosco I think.) ... nah, with cast like that, I can't fucking wait to see it.

5) Pi. I have "been meaning to see it" since it got made. I know I'll love it, and be glad I saw it. I'm 100% certain it'll lie around the house for 3 days, and then get sent back so i can get the next movie. There are lots of movies like this in one way (Once we were Warriors, Romper Stomper..) that I just avoid to avoid being depressed by a great movie that dwells to surely enlightening effct on the shitter aspects of being a fucking human. I'd rather watch a 100% guarnteed poo like Oceans twelve.

6) I've been meaning to rent The Man Who Wasn't There since it came out. It didn't even make this list, so I will never see it. It just looks so boring.. the Coen brother can go swivel on this one.

7) O yeah, Feet of Flames. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208140/
I know. i fucking know. But I heard in the pub (that's a lie. I heard it from a buddy in another bed when we saring a hotel room at a con. But that sounds like teh ghey, hence "in a pub" shoehorns the phrase like social lubricant. (Horn? Lubricant? ghey?))- Anyfuckingway, the point is at the end of the show, the horrible cunt (aborted aside : went to recount the "hello magazine" story, but told that fucker to death. Just ask me "in the pub".) .. the audience are bored of three hours of dancing, and basically hankering for Live at Three on a monday with Sonny Noels. So, Flatley sets his feet on fire, and then dances. Fuck that, I gotta see that shit.

Movies 1 and 2 were Jarheads and Some Kind of Monster, 25 is empty as I discovered afterwards that the Pryor stand up I had picked was the one I saw a month ago.

Jarheads was a training+gotowar movie, guess what: the training bit wasn't as good as Full metal Jackets'. Guess what else: the gotowar bit was better. What a fucking shock. Not amazing by any means.

Some Kind of Monster was an overlong Metallica rockumentary, which showed the band making an album, bitching, and being really, really suburbanite. I got the impression the heart of the story was left on the editing room floor by Control Freak James, Dickhead Lars, and Kirk "I just don't want mommy and daddy to fight" Hammet.
The only emotion that resonated properly was an interview with 14-year veteran bass player Jason, who had left the band. He wanted to have some influence in the music the band made, but was shut out by James. This was the same deal as on the "Year and a Half" flyonthewall I watched when i was 15. James says if he made an album without the band, he was out. So he does and he is. There's an interview with jason, adn the only word for his demeanour is "wounded". He's just a wounded animal talking, and it shows just how bad people can take things that mater to them, even intangible concepts. Then there's Dave Mustaine who gets his moan on, but he's not wounded, he's just a twisted loser :-)
They band get a new bass player ( x years later), and the fucking awe on his face when he gets the job is touching. A door closes and a window gets opened I guess.

Bottom line, if yo o2, get yoself some free movies.

Brian

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